To DnD or Not to DnD
To DnD or Not to DnD is an Indianapolis based Dungeons and Dragons 5e Actual Play Podcast
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Another A'venture, Another 'Sode (The Hell Arc) - Our intrepid party continues their journey through Theatre Castle.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner
Special Guest: Camren Davis
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Another A'venture, Another 'Sode (The Hell Arc) - Our intrepid party continues their journey through Theatre Castle.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Lemons, Lemons, Lemons by Sam Steiner
Special Guest: Camren Davis
The Witch is Dead 2: This is My Top Gun - The continuation of the series of playthroughs of Grant Howitt's "The Witch is Dead."
Cast for this episode: Jake Carrico, Adam Davis, Zach Griffith, and Steven Marsh.
Content Warning: Language and violence
Episode 20: Me, To Play (The Hell Arc) - With their epic prison escape behind them, the party continues their flight through the castle. However, the proprietor of the castle has a myriad of surprises in store for our unsuspecting cast members.
Content Warning: Language and violence
Intro Parody: Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
The Witch is Dead 1: Cosmic Brownies and Ice Cream - In the first of a series of one shots played in the Grant Howitt one page RPG system 'The Witch is Dead'
Brandi and Sabrina are joined by special guest Bill Miller to kick off this special series of episodes, coming to you over the next few months!
Content Warning: Language and violence
Find more RPGs by Grant Howitt by joining his patreon.
Episode 19: Truth and Daear (The Hell Arc) - The party runs into an old friend as they exit prison and the cost of one characters past actions comes due.
Content Warning: Strong language
Intro Parody: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman
Episode 18: One Flew Over the Kenku's Nest (The Hell Arc) - The party continues executing their prison break, and the fate of Tingus Pingus is revealed.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Fortune and Men's Eyes by Justin Herbert (1971 version) and Josephine Preston Peabody (1900 version)
Special thanks this week to Gabby Dunkin, Kiki Webbs, Rachel Bush, Graham Puterbaugh, The Tea Witch, Thom Johnson, Steven Webber, Jadin Payton, Matt Bartlett, Jüs, Nathaniel Taff, Lauren Hottinger, Daniel Mickey, Kira Pescitelli, Kylee Phenis, and Zach Griffith
Episode 17: The (Igneous) Rock (The Hell Arc) - The bulk of our party engineers a prison break.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Macbeth
Episode 16: Personal Hell Stories (The Hell Arc) - As our party enters hell for the very first time, certain truths find their way to the front of each of their minds.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: R.U.R. by Karel Capek
Special thanks this week to Audrey Duprey.
Bonus Episode - Note: This Episode Contains Spoilers for Episodes 1-15 of The Illifort Saga
We recap the first 15 episodes of The Illifort Saga here on To DnD or Not to DnD. After that, we take some listener questions and talk about why the hell we do all this to begin with.
Content Warning: Language
Play Again? - A Call of Cthulhu Mystery Adventure - Part 2 - The second of a two part mini-arc, played in the Call of Cthulhu system, in which our protagonist finds himself awake in a world that defies reality.
This episode features Adam Davis as "Taco" Trayden and Brandi Davis as the GM.
Content Warning: Language
Play Again? - A Call of Cthulhu Mystery Adventure - Part 1 - The first of a two part mini-arc, played in the Call of Cthulhu system, in which our protagonist finds himself awake in a world that defies reality.
This episode features Adam Davis as "Taco" Trayden and Brandi Davis as the GM.
Content Warning: Language
Holiday Bonus: Crinkle Clump is Missing! - It's Holiday time in the city of Illifort, but not all is well. The Crinkleness festivities always include a special holiday play about little baby Crinkle Clump and his pet spreading holiday cheer, but this years production seems to be in jeopardy! With little Ralphie, the star of the show, missing no one knows how the play will go on! It's up to our party of 3 rough and tumble mercenaries to find little Ralphie and restore holiday cheer to this years festivities!
Content Warning: Language
Episode 15: Sunday Morning Coming Down - The party plays sending stone tag in a familiar environment, and realizes the real intentions are the friends you meet along the way.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken, lyrics & book by Howard Ashman
Episode 14: Minesweepers - The party makes their way further into the mines in search of Tingus Pingus. Meanwhile, Tingus receives an unexpected visitor.
Content/Trigger Warning: Language
Intro Parody: The Monologue Show From Hell by Don Zolidis
Episode 13: Tingus No Swiping! - The party returns to town, meet some old friends and some new, and have a drink at the bar. After which, Tingus fails a saving through, if you can believe it.
Content Warning: Language
Intro Parody: No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Episode 12: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Deva Scorned - As the party makes their way out of the mines, an unexpected detour inexplicably sends them deeper down.
Content/Trigger Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Spoof of Youth and Shadow Plays
Episode 11: A No Bones Day - Our merry band of adventurers make their way into the Pakipsy family mines in search of Sending Stone parts for Olive.
Content/Trigger Warning: Language, Body Horror, Scary Imagery
Intro Parody: Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Episode 10: Crossbows and Marigolds - The party makes it to "The Deep" and decide to have a drink at a local watering hole wile they ponder their next steps.
Content/Trigger Warning: Language
Intro Parody: Fearful Symmetry by Alan Haehnel
Episode 9: B3NJ-1Mn - Our party continues through the mountains on their way to Gresmond's Deep. Along the way, a game of chance is played, and fortunes are tested.
Content/Trigger Warning: Language, Violence, and Gambling
Intro Parody: Rock of Ages by Mary Kron
Episode 8: A DnD or Not Rock Opera - The party makes their way through the mountains on their way to Gresmond's Deep. Later, questions are asked and answers are given, which lead to more questions.
Content Warning: Adult Language
Intro Parody: Silent Night The (Mostly) True Story of the World's Most Beloved Carol by Peter Manos
Episode 7: Siri Set an Alarm - Elise's fate is sealed as the results of her card draw are revealed.
Content Warning: Adult Language
Intro Parody: The Cards of Fate by Ed Monk
Not to DnD: HoneyCon 2017 - The score of a lifetime is up for grabs for anybody (or anyBEARy) brave or foolish enough to make a grab for it. Join Jake, Adam, Brandi, and Sabrina for our first ever "Not to DnD" segment, as they play through the Grant Howitt one page TTRPG "Honey Heist".
Content Warning: Language, Violence, Adult Situations
Episode 6: Frogg It Like It's Hot - After the party's plan went off without an incident, an incident occurred which left the party and their ally, Mrek, face to face with King Frogquaad and his Bullywug Army.
Content Warning: Adult language, violence
Intro parody - The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien
Episode 5: A Totally Original Swamp Fairy Tale - After the previous night's revelations and the mornings surprise sunrise, the party sets out through the swamp where they make some new allies...and some new enemies.
Content Warning: Adult language
Intro parody - Annie by Thomas Meehan (playwright), Charles Strouse (composer), Martin Charnin (lyricist)
Episode 4: Sunday - After narrowly escaping the event of a lifetime with their lives, our party finds themselves stranded in a strange place with their sights on the future, and their minds drifting into their past's.
Content Warning: Adult language
Intro parody - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Episode 3: Fight and Flight - After the king's super dope party was crashed by a human (gross) war host, the party escorts King Qek himself through the dangers now occupying Illifort Castle.
Content Warning: Adult language, fantasy violence
Intro parody - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Episode 2: Pandora's Envelope - Tingus, Elise, Talbott, and Kokira have all received mysterious envelopes from their friends and benefactors. In this episode, those envelopes will be opened, and their contents may shake the very foundation of Illifort and the 5 Realms.
Content Warning: Adult language
Intro parody - Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim
Episode 1: A Prologue of Sorts - In this episode, we will be introduced to the world of the 5 realms, and the delightful, if eccentric, cast of characters who inhabit it.
Content Warning: Adult language
Intro parody - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Illifort Saga Trailer: Meet the characters of the 5 realms.